And so, we were engaged by that time.  But the Lord had brought me through so many different experiences here, preparing me, little did I know that when I applied for a job at OREA, that a year from that point, I would be actually designing Kenneth Copelands, “Believers? Voice of Victory” magazine.  Little did I know that as I worked on the sets for the hourly specials, that I would be designing Brother Copeland’s first television set.  All of these things, the Lord was preparing me to do what I was to do next.  And all that to say, Oral Roberts University, to me, was a launching pad.  I can remember every day of the time that I was here, and I am, to this day, still living off of the launch that the Lord launched me from this place 28 years ago.  I am still living off of that experience.  Praise God, praise God.

RR: You talk about changing from music.  There are more than 60 different majors here.  Because we must go into all the different worlds that are out there.  We must go into business.  We must go into education.  We must go into science.  We must go into government.  We

must go into technology and computers.  We must go into the world of music, and ministry, and missions, and athletics.  ORU is big in athletics.  So all these different areas are available here at ORU.

I want you to meet Brother Jude Fuquay, who has come to the conference all the way from Seattle, Washington.  He’s a youth pastor at City Church in Seattle.  Give him a big welcome.  He is an alum of ORU.

JF: Good evening.  I know you’re thinking “Fuquay doesn’t match with Seattle,? and it doesn’t, because I’m originally from the bayous of Louisiana.  My family was not a Christian.  And I accepted Jesus Christ, and I was praying one night, “Lord, what do You want me to do with my life?”  I’d heard of Oral Roberts University, but there were a couple problems.  Number one, I only had about $292 in my pocket, and number two, I hadn’t applied.  And I said, “Lord, if you want me to go to Oral Roberts University, You need to give me a sign.”  And this was 18 years ago, before they had satellite television, before they had 100 stations – there were only about 12 stations in the bayou of Louisiana at that time – and it’s one in the morning, and music comes on, and a man comes on the television, and he says, “Something good is going to happen to you today!”  And he says, ? I have great news.”  He says, “We have 50 openings for 50 undergraduate men.”  And he says, “Call on Monday.”  And he says, “Get your application.”  I called on Monday.  The next Monday they called me.  I found a ride, and I drove all the way from the bayous of Louisiana, and I arrived in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at 7777 S. Lewis, and when I saw that Prayer Tower, I knew God had met me, and He was going to give me a miracle.

Richard Roberts: They knew what event He was referring to.  He communicated from a boat or from a mountain top.

There is a time to stand up.  Right now our president has appointed 101 judges, and not a one of them can get a hearing before the United States Senate.  And I’m not talking about Republicans or Democrats.  I’ve never gone into a voting booth and pulled a lever marked D or R or I. I’ve never done that in my life. I don’t believe in that.  I believe in voting for the man or woman who is a godly man or woman and also has some ability.

Now look, a mule is not going to win the Kentucky Derby.  ”Well, let me in there.  I’m born again.”  You’ve got to have some ability.  A born-again turkey is still a turkey. …LAUGHTER…  You’d better have some ability.  I mean, when you step up the plate, you’d better be able to swing the bat.

Yes, I want Holy Ghost-filled Christians on all of our athletic teams.  I also want some ability, “cause Paul said,  ”Run the race to win.”

We have unlimited power, and as Americans, I don’t want us to miss our hour of visitation.  There is a saying, and we use it all the time:  Strike while the iron is hot.  Why?  Because if you take the metal out of the fire and you lay it down for an hour or two, you can’t form it and fashion it.  But when it’s hot, when it’s in the fire, you can bend it and you can mold it and you can shape it into whatever instrument it needs to be made into.

And there is a moment, there is a moment right now, when we as the body of Christ have an opportunity to strike a blow for deliverance for the United States of America.

There’s a pastor in Virginia who pastors a church of some 5,000-7,000.  Twice yearly he has his entire congregation stand, and he says to them, “All the registered voters, sit down.”  Naturally, all those who remain standing are the unregistered voters.  And he will bring his ushers to them immediately with voter registration cards.  …APPLAUSE…

The mayor of our city has asked me if I would head up a faith-based summit this fall in our city: prayer.  And this past week I hosted a dinner for pastors and ministers in our city.  People wondered if anybody would come.  We had more than 120 pastors and ministers who came for the dinner, because they’re fed up.  They’re fed up with what’s going on.  They’re tired of elections being won or lost being based on a little chad in Florida.  They’re tired of that.

He would talk about a sower in the field and everyone could communicate with that.  He would talk about a tower falling on people and killing individuals. – Richard Roberts.

God has no concern about you having things.  Just don’t let those things have you.  Those things have the world because their whole focus is on it.  Our focus is on God.

LR: I want you to know that never in ten million years would I have ever picked that car, mostly, no, completely, because of the price tag-never in a million years.  And when we drove to that car dealership, we were actually looking at the dealership next to it.

And we walked all around and we ended up meandering into that dealership by accident.  Ha, ha, ha.  And Richard said, “Of all the cars on this entire place that we’ve all looked through, which one is your heart’s desire?”  And I pointed to that car.  I didn’t know how much it was.  I had no idea.  No one had told me how much anything was because there was nobody there.  It was just us.  But we had looked at the dealership, the used car dealership next door to it.

And when we drove away, Cheryl said something very interesting to me.  She said, “Lindsay, do you realize that your miracle was only a few steps away from you, but in your human flesh you didn’t even know it?”

But the day I got out of my human flesh and I turned it over to the Father, is when He went exceedingly abundantly far above anything I could ever ask or think.  But I have to tell you one thing, and I want to hold you all responsible for this one thing, when I began to sow my seed, the person I was sowing to, her mother is sitting in the audience right over there.  I said, “I have one string attached to this.  You call your mother every time I hand you this seed and you tell her to get on her face before God that I am sowing seed into what God wants me to have.”   And she did.

But last night when I got this car, the Lord spoke in my heart and He said, “Do not le the sun go down on your seed.  Give away your other car.”  Now there was still a lot of value left in it.  Yes, it needed some repair.  Honestly, it does.  And we said we would pay for the repair.  But there’s still a lot of value left in the car.  And Richard and I sat right over there behind that curtain and said, “On the count of three, you say the name the Lord has placed in your heart to give this car to.”  We counted to three, and we said the same name.”

And when the program was over, the host asked me to pray and I prayed.  And then after I prayed, he asked her to pray.  And instead of praying, she began to prophesy over me.  And she said to me, “Richard Roberts, God has heard the cry of your heart.”  And in my mind I’m saying, “How do you know the cry of my heart?”  She said, “God has heard your cry for a healing ministry.”

Tears burst out of my eyes, and I sat there in utter amazement as she read my history.  And there’s no way she could have known anything about what I had been praying and believing for.

She said, “Your father has had a laying-on-of-hands ministry.  Your ministry will be different.  It will be a word- of-knowledge ministry.  I didn’t even know what a word-of- knowledge ministry was.  I didn’t understand the operation of the gifts of the Spirit, as the apostle Paul taught in I Corinthians 12.  I had no idea.

She said, “You’ll speak, and people will be healed.”  She said, “You will be on television far more than your father has ever been on television.”  And she said, “You won’t have to face the disappointment that your father has faced.”  And he referred to it in his message last night, when there were so many people and he couldn’t lay his hands on them.

I remember when he came home from Kenya in 1969 with one to two hundred thousand people a day, having laid hands on at least ten thousand a day.  Everyone was talking about the miracles.  He was talking about the ones he couldn’t touch.  And I saw the hurt in his heart.  When he would run out of his strength, and even when I was a little boy, I would help as we’d carry him to the car and put him to bed for three days because he didn’t know who he was.  I’d seen that.

And this word came to me, “You won’t go through that.”  And I was stunned.  I was in shock.  And when the program was over, I went behind the platform and I said to the woman, “I owe you an apology.”  And she said, “Why?”  I said, “I don’t like you.  And I’m wrong.”  And I said, “I sincerely apologize.  I didn’t think you were for real.  There’s no way you could have known that.”

It was Vicki Jamison-Peterson was who it was.  I had the privilege of performing her wedding to Dr. Carl Peterson some years ago, and Lindsay and Vicki and I are great friends today. And she’s for real, incidentally.  And she’s a trustee of the ICBM.  I think we should give the Lord a handclap.  (Applause)

Father, in the authority … uh huh … sure, I’ll do that. He’s even going to heal an effect of someone who has had spina bifida.  He’s going to heal you tonight.  In the authority of the name of Jesus … Lindsay, honey, come up here and stand next to me.  In the authority of the name of Jesus, I speak to the problem in your back.

Now there’s curvature of the spine that’s leaving right now.  There’s someone who has an S curve like this woman, young woman whose testimony I read earlier.  And it’s like a cool spring … that’s the word the Lord is giving me … it’s like a cool spring going up your back.  Honey, turn around and I’ll show you right where it is.  It’s starting right here in the lower back, and it’s moving up.

And the healing is going up the center of your back.  It’s going to the sides of your back.  It’s going across the back of your shoulder.  It’s going right in the lower part where you’ve had such pain.  There are disks and vertebrae being healed right now.

In the authority of Jesus’ name, I bind the problem in your back.  And in Jesus’ name, I send the word to you.  Now stretch your hands out toward mine just like this.  There’s no healing in my hands, but my hands become a powerful point of contact. That’s what I’m saying on television every night.  The only reason I’m not live tonight is because of this conference.  We chose to play a rerun tonight because of the conference.

But you know what happened a few weeks ago?  We aired a rerun with Jesse Duplantis because Lindsay and I were out of town.  Forty-six people got healed.  Six people got saved, and twelve were baptized in the Holy Spirit.  (Applause)

Stretch your hands out toward mine.  In the authority of the name of Jesus, I send … oh, there it goes right now … I send the word to your back.  Now begin to do with your back what you’ve not been able to do.  God is healing seventy-five people’s backs.  Begin to bend.  Begin to move.  Seventy-five of you, a minimum of seventy-five people, you’re feeling the healing power of God go into your back right now.  Hallelujah!